Assignment 1 Hand in your answers no later than Wednesday January 15.

You need to show your calculations in your answers (only a number is not enough). Answers have to be on a separate paper. 1. What is the speed of sound if the temperature is 20 Celsius? (No calculation is required for this answer). 2. What is the speed of sound if the temperature is -5 Celsius? 3. You are performing "off stage" from a balcony 75 meters from an orchestra in a large cathedral. To get into the right mood you close your eyes. When you hear your cue, you start to play. The conductor complains that you are too late. How late will you be due to the distance? The temperature in the cathedral is 18C. 4. A symphony orchestra needs approximately 10 * 20 meters space. How long of a time does it take for the 1st violinist in the last row (front left corner) to hear the tuba (back right corner)? (Hint: Use the Pythagorean formula). Assume that it is 20 Celsius in the room. A precision of +/- 30 ms is demanded of performers playing together. What is the solution we use to be able to play together? 5. The annoying sound from a mosquito is produced when it beats its wings at the average rate of 600 wing beats per second. a. What is the frequency in Hertz of the sound wave? b. What is the period time? c. What is the wavelength of the wave at 20 Celsius? 6. Doubling the frequency of a wave source doubles the speed with which the waves travel. True or False? 7. An elephant produces a 10 Hz sound wave. a. What is the period time of this infrasonic sound? b. What is the wavelength if the temperature is 30 Celsius? 8. Middle-C on a piano produces a complex wave with a fundamental of 256 Hz. a. Determine the wavelength of the fundamental corresponding to the note of middle C at 20 Celsius. b. Suppose you had a second piano with identical tuning and played the same pitch at the same instant with the same volume. How much closer to you than piano one would piano two need to be in order to create completely destructive interference on the 256 Hz frequency? How much closer would it need to be to cause interference that is neither destructive nor constructive? Why is it next to impossible in practice to achieve completely destructive interference?